Table 3 Stepwise regressions between glomalin features and various soil properties, and their differences at different soil layers (Stepwise regression: F-enter probability value was at p < 0.01, and F-removal probability value was at p > 0.05). The constants in the models were not listed in the table for minimizing the size of the table.

From: Glomalin contributed more to carbon, nutrients in deeper soils, and differently associated with climates and soil properties in vertical profiles

Y

Parameters

Surface soils 0–40 cm

Deep soils 40–100 cm

Unstandard B

Standard Beta

Sig

R2

Parameters

Unstandard B

Standard Beta

Sig.

R2

EEG

SOC

0.02

0.41

0.00

0.53

pH

−0.26

−0.59

0.00

0.69

MAT

−0.18

−0.31

0.00

 

MAT

−0.17

−0.28

0.00

 

pH

−0.27

−0.60

0.00

 

EC

−0.001

−0.17

0.00

 

Altitude

−0.001

−0.29

0.00

 

Altitude

−0.001

−0.26

0.00

 

water

−0.01

−0.17

0.01

 

SOC

0.026

0.32

0.00

 

TG

SOC

0.20

0.50

0.00

0.63

SOC

0.32

0.60

0.00

0.62

MAP

0.06

0.60

0.00

 

pH

−1.28

−0.43

0.00

 

water

−0.17

−0.36

0.00

 

water

−0.07

−0.17

0.00

 

MAT

−1.46

−0.34

0.00

      

EEG/SOC

SOC

−0.001

−0.60

0.00

0.48

MAT

−0.009

−0.28

0.00

0.53

MAT

−0.007

−0.41

0.00

 

water

−0.001

−0.25

0.00

 

pH

−0.005

−0.35

0.00

 

pH

−0.015

−0.59

0.00

 
     

MAP

0.000

−0.33

0.00

 
     

SOC

−0.001

−0.18

0.00

 

TG/SOC

SOC

−0.004

−0.45

0.00

0.24

pH

−0.070

−0.48

0.00

0.30

MAP

0.001

0.616

0.00

 

water

−0.007

−0.34

0.00

 

water

−0.004

−0.34

0.00

 

SOC

−0.005

−0.19

0.01

 

MAT

−0.029

−0.29

0.00

      

EEG/N

N

−0.01

−0.50

0.00

0.58

MAT

−0.018

−0.48

0.00

0.55

MAT

−0.009

−0.38

0.00

 

EC

−7.8E-5

−0.17

0.00

 

pH

−0.006

−0.34

0.00

 

N

−0.013

−0.27

0.00

 

water

−0.001

−0.28

0.00

 

pH

−0.011

−0.36

0.00

 
     

water

−0.001

−0.23

0.00

 

TG/N

N

−0.120

−0.80

0.00

0.40

pH

−0.071

−0.43

0.00

0.38

SOC

0.007

0.49

0.00

 

N

−0.135

−0.48

0.00

 

pH

−0.022

−0.18

0.01

 

water

−0.006

−0.26

0.00

 
      

SOC

0.010

0.34

0.00

 
      

K

0.001

0.18

0.00

 

EEG/P

P

−0.050

−0.45

0.00

0.18

P

−0.146

−0.24

0.00

0.06

SOC

0.001

0.28

0.00

      

TG/P

P

−0.314

−0.47

0.00

0.21

P

−0.972

−0.26

0.00

0.07

SOC

0.007

0.33

0.00

      

EEG/TG

SOC

−0.006

−0.44

0.00

0.31

MAT

−0.19

−0.37

0.00

0.17

MAT

−0.057

−0.38

0.00

 

SOC

−0.01

−0.17

0.01

 

Statistics

climatic entered/total

9/29 = 31.0%

 

6/30 = 20.0%

      

physiochemical entered/total

8/29 = 27.6%

 

13/30 = 43.3%

      

nutrient entered/total

12/29 = 41.4%

 

11/30 = 36.7%

      

SOC times/ |average|

8/0.44

  

6/0.30

     

pH times/ |average|

4/0.37

  

6/0.48

     

EC times/ |average|

0/0

  

2/0.17

     

MAT times/ |average|

6/0.30

  

4/0.35

     
  1. Note: water is soil water percentage. SOC times mean the times of SOC entering the stepwise models, pH, EC and MAT times had the similar meaning. EEG/SOC, relative ratio of the carbon in EEG to total SOC; TG/SOC, relative ratio of the carbon in TG to total SOC; EEG/N, relative ratio of the nitrogen in EEG to total soil N; TG/N, relative ratio of the nitrogen in TG to total soil N; EEG/P, relative ratio of the phosphorus in EEG to total soil P; TG/P, relative ratio of the phosphorus in TG to total soil P; EEG/TG, relative ratio of the EEG to TG.